REAMPING: What is the main reason you REAMP???

[logancircle]

Fatten a snare through your $5000 tube amp? Reverb? Adding distortion to a kick drum? Just curious--thanks.

[lee]

to amp something again? i dont know either.

[logancircle]

AHHHH! That is the most disturbing avatar I've ever seen. WTF?

[joel hamilton]

I am really starting to hate the term "reAmp."
(not directed at you, the original poster, just in general).

Running sounds back through a speaker of some sort is SOOOO not a new concept.

Sending drums out to a PA and chambering using the live room: Not Reamping.

Sending a snare track back out through an auratone on a simmons pad (like on the cars records)? Not reamping.

Etc...etc....

Taking a DI of a live performance so you can decide on the best AMP for the job after the basics are done?

Starting to be "reamping."

Using a REAMP, made by REAMP, to get the signal back to a level and impedance that the fender twin wants to see: REAMPING!!!!


Any other form of running signal out to something to manipulate its sound is just that: manipulation by any means neccessary. That would include any of the above, including a traditional chamber which had an amp and a speaker and a microphone, just sitting in a room made specifically for ambience.
That was not reamping, that was chambering, and to use a term loosely makes waters down the meaning. That would be like saying "compressing" when you were gating something, or calling a gate a "fader."

My rant is just so we are clear, and not just heping to spread misinformation to someone who may not know the difference between chambering and re-recording something through an amplifier intended for instruments.

The snare triggering (by means of acoustic coupling from a speaker) trick can be amazingly useful, but it is not so much the sound of the amp/speaker combination you are looking for, which is why people have used things like auratones sitting on the keeper ring from a 2" spool to trigger even the most delicate of brushed snare performances, to get what they need in a mix from what is on tape.

I guess the simple answer to your question is:

I do whatever is needed to get something to sound great. If I need to send guitar tracks back out to an amp and re-record them properly, I will. If the snare sucks and I need more: use the snare/speaker trick (which doesnt require any "reamp" type devices by the way).

Sorry to sound harsh, but I feel that this important subject requires clear terms for those who have not done it a bunch of times, or know what to call what they are doing ( as stated long-winded-ly above... ugh).

[logancircle]

I got the terminology wrong--I guess I was combining chambering with reamping, which are different, but sortof of the same principle. I play different drum tracks through different amps to get new colors, but I don't use a REAMP per se. Would you still call that chambering? I've never used a REAMP, so maybe I'm missing something sonically by just taking a TRS out from my 828 into different speakers?

[Devlars]

AHHHH! That is the most disturbing avatar I've ever seen. WTF?

Yeah I can't even look at it. I've seen a few post by Lee now and everytime I see that bit of pink I just scroll right past it....really disturbing. Interesting but disturbing. It's a vocal chord and not a special V in case anyone was wondering...at least that's what I read.

[jebjerome]

But a reamp can be used for chambering.

I've used it to dial in the tone better and rerecord, often discarding the original.

Joel- what is the snare triggering thing you mentioned? What is triggering/getting triggered?

[logancircle]

here's an interesting related interlude:

http://www.acoustics.org/press/147th/Case1.htm

[Moon Unit]

That was not reamping, that was chambering, and to use a term loosely makes waters down the meaning. That would be like saying "compressing" when you were gating something, or calling a gate a "fader."

My rant is just so we are clear, and not just heping to spread misinformation to someone who may not know the difference between chambering and re-recording something through an amplifier intended for instruments.

Yea, but unfortunately, the term "re-amping" has somehow become a vital and integral part of my studio vocabulary, in fact . . . If I say "re-chambering," no one's gonna' know what in the Sam Hell I'm talking about.

I plan on using the term "re-amping" all the time now.

RE-AMPING is cool.

[8th_note]

I don't know if this will fit Mr. Hamilton's definition but the way I have used reamping is to record a clean guitar track and then run the signal back through a POD later to experiment with different sounds. This gives a great deal of flexibility on choosing a guitar sound for a 3rd or 4th guitar part that is a good fit for mix.

[joel hamilton]

I am not the keeper of the flame, so I dont really care about the terminology, but on a public forum, I feel it is good to be clear, or as clear as possible.

That is the only reason (along with being in the middle of a really long project) that I was ranting so hard.

[Phiz]

Joel- what is the snare triggering thing you mentioned? What is triggering/getting triggered?

I too am not sure what technique you are refering to and would like to hear more. Thanks!

[mildred-pitt]

THAT AVATAR!!! AHHH!!!!!

[wrenhunter]

I am really starting to hate the term "reAmp."

Hmm, good points. Think I'll xerox a copy of this thread to send to my friend -- oops, right after I clean up this spill with a kleenex!